New York

Otto Lenhart

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Otto Lenhart was one of the New York fur workers convicted in the 1927 Mineola trial — the Long Island prosecu...

Joseph Leston

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Joseph Leston, also spelled Lesten, was a seaman and one of five delegates chosen by the March 6, 1930 unemplo...

Tao Li

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Tao Li, also known as Tao Hsuan Li, was a Chinese student and anti-imperialist activist in New York. Labor Dep...

Samuel Lipman

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Samuel Lipman was 21 at the time of his arrest; the lone Marxist socialist (rather than anarchist) among the A...

Roy Lisker

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Roy Lisker was a writer, mathematician, and self-described Renaissance man who was one of five men who burned...

Alfredo Lopez

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Alfredo Lopez was a Puerto Rican Socialist Party Central Committee member and a coordinator of the July 4th Co...

M. Lopez

M. Lopez, a Food Workers Industrial Union baker, was arrested June 7, 1930 at a meeting outside Schlom Deutsch...

Vladimir Lossieff

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Vladimir Lossieff was a New York editor and Industrial Workers of the World member convicted in the 1918 Chica...

Frank Lott

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Frank Lott was incarcerated at Attica in 1971 and helped establish the Attica Liberation Faction. The prisoner...

Mattia Luini

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Mattia Luini is a dual Italian-American citizen from New York who was arrested on March 5, 2023 at the Atlanta...

Alexander H. Macmillan

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Alexander H. Macmillan was a Canadian-born senior Watch Tower official; one of eight defendants indicted May 7...

Calvin Madison

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Calvin Madison was a Delaware County, New York Anti-Renter imprisoned after the August 7, 1845 killing of Unde...

Manuel Magaña

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Manuel Magaña was an executive-board member of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee (JAFRC), which aided r...

Andy Mager

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Andy Mager was arrested on November 30, 1984. Andy was a resident of Syracuse, New York, who was indicted in...

Norman Mailer

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Norman Mailer was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist arrested at the October 21, 1967 March on the Pentagon for...

Abdul Majid

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Abdul Majid was a native of Queens New York and had been imprisoned for two decades. In the 1960s, he worked i...

Maurice Malkin

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Maurice Malkin was a founding member of the American communist movement and a furriers' union militant. Mauric...

Mae Mallory

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Mae Mallory was a Harlem activist and one of the 'Harlem Nine' mothers whose 1958 lawsuit against New York Cit...

Hector Marroquin

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Héctor Marroquín was a Mexican-born activist whose decade-long fight against deportation became a major politi...

George Marshall

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George Marshall was a civil-liberties activist, economist and conservationist — later a president of the Sierr...

Robert J. Martin

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Robert J. Martin was beginning to serve a prison sentence on June 21, 1918. Amember of the IBSA, Martin was co...

Maximino Pedraza Martinez

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Maximino Pedraza Martinez was a member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party prosecuted in the second federal...

Benno Martini

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Benno Martini was secretary of the Federation of German Worker Clubs. The Daily Worker of February 6, 1936 rep...

Carl Marzani

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Carl Aldo Marzani was an Italian-American immigrant radical, OSS veteran, and former State Department employee...